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Magical Realism In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, Of Love and Other Deamons, the author uses the technique of magical realism: a style of writing which combines realistic situations and events with myth and fantasy. Throughout the novel Garcia Marquez uses very real situations but twists them with intelligent and magical drops of sight, smell, touch and color. In the first chapter, the thought of a rabid dog running the streets in a little town of …

…the novel who can give or receive real love; first to Dominga then to Fr. Delaura. The use of magical realism has gone through much criticism, but I think that it is the only way to escape the norm without going into complete fantasy. For myself, I like the fact that everything “magic” will have its place and make sense at the end. It is a simple way of making the imagination come to life.